Just this past Fall semester I completed a course titled “Contemporary Theological Trends.” In this course we surveyed the history of post-Enlightenment Christian theology, feminist theology, and the broad range of contemporary evangelical theology. In the end, our professor required that we synthesize the content of the course in a single 6 page paper. No small task indeed.

I would like to make my work on this assignment available to my readers. Below you will see a short excerpt from the conclusion of the essay in the event that there are some of you who are lazy and don’t want to read the whole thing. The rest of you brainy academic types can read the whole thing by scrolling to the bottom of my academic portfolio page and clicking Thinking and Acting as Christians in a Postmodernity.

I invite you to read my work and respond in the comments section below. Am I on the right track or not? Why or why not? How can we as Christians best confront our postmodern culture?

Renewal in our culture will incorporate both the crisis of revival and the process of reformation. Just as the God-man entered human reality amidst the thunder of the heavenly chorus, so too did he quietly and patiently live out his life in the normalcy of a modest carpenter. The church who embodies his Spirit must do and be the same. We must be willing to confront the world and its systems of logic and be prepared to take a stand. But we must also be willing to live the live of faith in the most simple of every day places and routines. While our culture will not permit a verbal declaration of the Christian faith as a viable option in the public arena, by living every moment as broken bread and poured out wine we can speak the truth of God’s word more loudly than the most amplified voice and penetrate the hearts of men and women who have turned a deaf ear to the message.